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Does Declaring a Homeless Crisis Mean Calling in the Cavalry?
Sally and her husband, and two kids, moved into their neighborhood on the west edge of Los Angeles County a handful of years ago. They were willing to pay a premium on their new home because they were...
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Do We Really Need a Homelessness Awareness Week?
It doesn’t matter what month or week it is, there is some national awareness issue assigned to that time of the year. In February, we are reminded of National Cancer Prevention Month. In May, it is...
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Local Jurisdictions Are Forced to Address Homelessness on Their Own
Photo by: Ismo There is a new Sheriff in town. The town being the United States of America. Everyone is talking about the significant national policy changes that will occur going from a left-leaning...
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What Does The End of 2016 Mean For Homelessness?
Photo by Liz Bois Five years ago, I wrote a blog piece wondering how our country would respond to homelessness if Donald Trump was elected President. That was in 2011 when almost everyone thought a...
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Ending Homelessness: The Wait is Killing Them
Photo by Marc Brüneke When working in communities to address homelessness, I feel like an antsy kid – I don’t want to wait. I’m fidgety because the lag time seems so long. I am baffled why it’s taking...
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We’re working on the homeless problem, but don’t expect instant results
No one in Los Angeles was surprised to hear on Wednesday that the homeless population had ballooned yet again. Everywhere one looks one sees people sleeping on sidewalks, in tents and recreational...
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More Racism, More Homelessness?
Jim D’Aquilia/Momenta Workshops 2016. Is homelessness a product of racism in this country? For those of us who have been working on the front lines of homelessness for years, we define root causes of...
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Los Angeles Homeless Numbers: Making It Count
Here in Los Angeles, stakeholders involved in addressing homelessness — from frontline case workers, to charity leaders, to foundation executives — just assumed the numbers of people homeless on Los...
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An Ambidextrous Approach to Ending Homelessness
While some of us can tune political divisiveness out by turning off our televisions and radios there are others who are the real victims of this discord; the homeless. The left/right divide halts...
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Why Don’t We Create Sheltered Neighborhoods?
For more than two decades, I have led a homeless services and housing development agency that was started here in Los Angeles. I have seen dozens of plans, initiatives, policies, ordinances and...
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